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Volume 1, Number 36: June 17 - June 24, 1972

  • Jun 24, 1972
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This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from June 17 - June 24, 1972, had 12 pages, filled with independent local, regional, and national news. Six months for $5, one year for $8. Download the .pdf at the bottom of the page.


Screenshot of Volume 1, Number 36 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from June 17, 1972

Article Index


Citizens confront slumlord, substandard house condemned

by Anita Harris

page 1, page 6

keywords: Harrisburg Uptown Neighbors Together; Wendell Banks; housing inspector; Edward Scheyder; Bessie Collier; Carolyn Jones; Louis Goldstein; building code violations; Neighborhood Development Project; rent withholding program; Stuart Branham


Doutrich shouts down war -- again

page 1

keywords: Harrisburg City Council; Council President Paul Doutrich; Gravel-Drinan-Mondale bill; Vietnam War; Fred Solowey; Father James LaCroce; Mayor Harold Swenson; Jerry Eller; Kay Pickering; Stanley Lawson; Harrisburg Peace and Justice Center


County ignores bail order

by Julie Nichol

page 1, page 6

keywords: Pennsylvania bail system; Assistant D.A. Marion McIntyre; own recognizance; Dauphin County justices; District Justice Stanley Grimwood; misdemeanors; Pennsylvania Supreme Court


Matrix

by R.C. Filburn

page 2, page 4

keywords: Cesar Chavez; migrant farm laborer; migrant labor camps; Senator Henry Messinger; Senate Bill 429; unsanitary conditions; health; Department of Environmental Resources; crew leader; grower; Rep. W, Brady Hetrick; housing


Washington Merry-Go-Round

by Jack Anderson/United Features Syndicate

page 2

keywords: FBI; Alger Hiss; Whittaker Chambers; New School for Social Research; Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien; President Nixon; Vietnam War; Secret Service; congressman John Schmitz


Complex drug law enacted

by Anita Harris

page 2

keywords: Governor's Drug and Alcohol Abuse Council; Pennsylvania Drug, Device and Cosmetic Board; District Attorney Leroy Zimmerman; "controlled substances"; marijuana; probation; treatment


Opinion Welfare Work Scheme Attacked

by Julie Nichol

page 3

keywords: Harrisburg Coalition for the Survival of Children; Family Assistance Plan; President Nixon; child care programs; Welfare Rights Organization; guaranteed income; Aid to Families with Dependent Children; Wesley Johnson


Tempers fly, so do flags

page 3

keywords: rock festival; Penn State Capitol Campus; Frank Linn; State Rep. Rudolph Dininni; Old Glory; Campus Provost Robert E, McDermott; Terry K. Wimmer; state colleges and universities


Cinema scene brightens

page 3

keywords: Hershey; Gallery Theater; Robert and Don Erwin; Judy Erwin; 'Silent Running'; Dr. Doolittle; The French Connection; The Last Picture Show


Shapp silent on CARE

by Jim Wiggins

page 4

keywords: Coalition Against Ruining the Environment; Wildwood Park; River Relief Route; environmental impact statement; Norval Reece; Jacob Kassab; Department of Transportation; Jim Terry; U.S. Middle District Court


Music Review Chapin to Kottke to Joy

by Dick Sassaman

page 4

keywords: Heads and Tales; "Taxi"; "Dogtown"; "Any Old Kind of Day"; Harry Chapin; Leo Kottke; Greenhouse; "Bean Time"; "Owls"; "From the Cradle To the Grave"; folk performer; instrumentals; Joy of Cooking; Castles; Toni Brown; Jim Horn; Terry Garthwaite; "Don't the Moon Look Fat and Lonesome"


Ralph Nader, Hugh Downs to speak

page 4

keywords: National Conference on Land Policy; Penn Harris Motor Inn; Milton J. Shapp; "Today"; Thomas Rowland


Analysis Victory for Bigotry

by John Serbell

page 5

keywords: U.S. Supreme Court; state-licensed private clubs; racial discrimination; K. Leroy Irvis; Moose Lodge; House Majority Leader; freedom of association; Supreme Court appointments


Miami: If you liked Chicago

by Jim Wiggins

page 5

keywords: political convention; participatory democracy; George McGovern; Hubert Humphrey; Richard Nixon; Miami Conventions Coalition; civil disbeidance; demonstration; march; Youth International Party; Jerry Rubin; Abbie Hoffman; Ed Zuckerman; Mayor Chuck Hall


Letters To the Editors

page 6

keywords: sate and federal employment; Public Personnel Project; women; minorities; Jody Raphael; Ben and Dot Malmstrom; furniture


Protest

page 6

keywords: Congress; Joan Baez; Coretta Scott King; Vietnam


Minority parties win suit

page 6, page 8

keywords: Committee for Democratic Election Laws; U.S. District Court; minority political parties; Socialist Workers Party; Socialist Labor Party; Communist Party; People's Party; Consumers Party; ACLU; Musmanno Act; Les Tammi; Scranton


City's recreation more work than play

by Jim Wiggins

page 1, page 7

keywords: recreation programs; Mayor Harold Swenson; Charles Slaughter; Fred C. Earhardt; state and federal funds; Parks and Recreation; park maintenance; public pools; fitness programs; City Councilman Stanley Lawson


Davis defense won't quit with acquittal

page 7

keywords: Angela Davis; murder; kidnapping; conspiracy; Marin County Courthouse; Wes Johnson; Angela Davis Defense Committee; Madison Square Garden


Supressed Rand Corp. Report Outlines Vietnam Atrocities

by Bob Barker and Mal Warwick/Alternative Features Service

page 8, page 11

keywords: South Korean troops; ROK; Melvin Gurtov; murders; Phu Yen province; Human Sciences Research; A. Terry Rambo; Elliott Richardson; Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird; Winthrop G. Brown; Binh Dinh province; Central Highlands


Energy: The Big Power Play, II

by Liberation News Service

page 9

keywords: electrical companies; AEC Chairman James Schlesinger; big corporations; "energy crisis"; Trans-Alaskan pipeline; strip mining; atomic energy; atomic waste; Black Mesa; geothermal energy; wind power; Standard Oil; oil companies


Student Discontent Explodes in South Africa

by LNS

page 10

keywords: African universities; student strike; Abraham Ramothibi Tiro; South African Student's Organization; demonstrations; boycotts; police brutality; segregationist policies; Prime Minister John Vorster


Amnesty

page 10

keywords: Willy Brandt; Prime Minister; W. Germany


Food for Living

by Sally Hoover

page 10

keywords: corn bread; yeast


Movie Review Hammers's "Horror" Films

by Charles D. Leayman

page 11

keywords: Hammer Films; "The Curse of Frankenstein"; Peter Cushing; Christopher Lee; Vincent Price; "Horror of Dracula"; Terence Fisher; "Phantom of the Opera"; "The Mummy"; Ralph Bates; "Dr. Jeckyl and Sister Hyde"


Information

page 11

keywords: Rep. Moorhead; secrecy programs


Corrections

page 11

keywords: non-related persons; gainful employment; strikes


Movies Movies Movies

page 12

keywords: Buck and the Preacher; Chato's Land; Dealing; Fiddler On the Roof; The Godfather; Klute; Living Free; Modern Times; On Any Sunday; Summer of '42; The Anderson Tapes; Toys Are Not for Children; ZPG


Photos

by John Serbell

page 1

keywords: substandard housing


by Sarah Forth

page 1

keywords: recreation


by LNS

page 9

keywords: "energy crisis"

page 10

keywords: demonstration


Artwork

by LNS

page 3

keywords: welfare

page 5

keywords: political conventions


by Gene Suchma

page 3








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